Dan Pallotta

After Uncharitable, everyone asked Dan Pallotta, “What can we do about this? This is his reply.

Uncharitable asked radical questions about why we deny humanitarian organizations the huge economic freedoms we give to business. Charity Case asks why we have never made the case for our own liberation. Why do we not stand up for ourselves? Why do we remain voiceless, defenseless, and unorganized in the face of broad public misunderstanding of how social change really happens? And it lays out a brave and detailed strategy for changing that.

Charity Case calls for an assault on the public’s hallucinations about the nonprofit sector on multiple fronts: the creation of an anti-defamation league for the sector, a legal defense fund, a permanent and large-scale public-facing ad campaign, enactment of a National Civil Rights Act for Charity and Social Enterprise, and the grassroots organization of the sector itself, on its own behalf.

We know what the problem is. If you’re serious about social change, we now have an actionable solution.

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Coming in September from Jossey Bass.

“Charity Case is an Apollo program for American philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. Pallotta’s understanding of the hamstrung nonprofit sector is poetic and therapeutic. His prescription is sensible and profound. Charity Case will inspire its readers with an expansive sense of possibility.” — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

”Every once in a while a book comes along that states the obvious in such a compelling way that it rises to the level of genius. Charity Case is that exciting. It dares the whole of the charitable industry to raise its voice to the level of the music business, the movie business, and other consumer giants. In its insistence that the industry cross over to the mainstream and reject the role of second-class citizens, it has the potential to make charity sexy, and that’s really the only way charity is ever going to change the world." — Clive Davis, Former Chairman, Sony Music, Founder, Arista Records, Former President, Columbia Records

”If we had a prize for the most innovative thinking about charity and social change it would go to Dan Pallotta and the competition wouldn’t be close. Charity Case is the blueprint for unleashing the awesome power of this sector and enlightening society that unknowingly holds it back. Simply brilliant and in a class by itself.” — Dr. Peter Diamandis, Chairman, X PRIZE Foundation, Author of the New York Times Best-Seller, “Abundance”

“The nonprofit world needs innovation. Mr. Pallotta is helping us see how new ideas can help make our world more successful. In these tough times, we need his out of the box ideas!” — Bobby Shriver, Co-Founder, Product (RED)

Dan Pallotta is a big thinker—impatient, generous, and insightful.
It’s worth hearing him out.”
— Seth Godin, Author, Tribes

“Dan Pallotta invites, tempts and provokes every single one of us to think differently about the humanitarian sector. He has a big vision and artfully makes a case for creating a sector-wide movement capable of powerful actions and needle moving change that improves lives. In this rapidly changing and increasingly complex world, Dan’s voice is crisp, clear and compelling.” — Diana Aviv, President and CEO, Independent Sector

“It doesn’t occur to Dan Palotta that standing on the sidelines is an option. And he makes it impossible for the rest of us to stand back. Charity Case is a wakeup call for every fundraiser around the world. We ARE the public champions of philanthropy—it’s just that not all of us have been aware of that until now.” — Andrew Watt, President and CEO, Association of Fundraising Professionals

“Charity Case is visionary in its empathy. It sympathizes with the donating public’s confusion about how charity really works, and with the nonprofit sector’s plea to be held to standards that engender trust and grow support. At that intersection lies the promise of a new era of enlightenment about charity and social change.” — Art Taylor, President, Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance

“Charity Case takes innovative thinking about the social sector to an entirely new level. It’s not just new thinking. It’s new thinking about new territory. It opens new possibilities that haven’t occurred to us.  It raises the radical prospect that cultural conventions about charity don’t have to be fixed; that we can change them. It makes a cause of causes themselves. It’s a powerful call to action to change-makers: if we want to create real change we have to change the way change is made—that we of all people cannot resign ourselves to a status quo that stifles our potential to make a difference.” — Jane Wei-Skillern, Adjunct Associate Professor UCBerkeley Haas School and Lecturer, Stanford GSB